First Snow

While good little avatars slept all snug in their beds, it seems to have snowed in Harbour.
I thought about covering the whole island in a uniform layer of snow, but I decided against it when I realized how many green trees are in the region. That’s a lot of trees to winterize! So only the [...]

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Changing Seasons

I think of Second Life as having just a couple seasons… green and snowy. Most places are green and then turn snowy for some portion of the winter, maybe just for the month of December.
Looking across the water from the garden at Harbour, I can see that Edloe is snowy. Looks like it’s nearly time [...]

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Thanksgiving

I hear that if you have a blog, it’s obligatory that you include a Thanksgiving post on it.That post is supposed to list the things I’m thankful for, or so I’m told. So some fo the things I’m thankful for are:

I’m thankful for the friends I have here, and delighted that I got to meet [...]

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Taking out the Trash: Premium Memberships

I have a bias against companies who try to “take out the trash” by dropping press releases or other sensitive information on a Friday to reduce their impact. Linden Labs does this more often than some people realize. It doesn’t look all that effective on the surface, since residents are most active on the [...]

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Pondering Script Limitations per Parcel

Vint Falken helpfully summarizes some of Babbage Linden’s Office Hour transcript where he discusses how openspace script limits may be handled.
I’m pleased to see that they’re thinking this through rather than just announcing something first and thinking later. And maybe there’s some good and bad in the plans he discusses.
On one hand, a region won’t [...]

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Last Call to Visit Some Non-Openspace Regions

To say that I’m suffering from openspace-discussion fatigue is probably an understatement. It’s rapidly overtaking election-commercial fatigue, and that’s saying something.
But an announcement from the Rezzable folks got my attention. Two of their full-prim regions are being deleted, effective today, with one day’s notice to the blog-reading public. Residents oblivious to the SLogosphere will simply [...]

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